A Christmas Carol: Why Scrooge Is An Old Man

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Scrooge is an old man. A selfish, uncaring, conniving old man that is!
With his chalky white hair and beard. His pointed nose upon his thin lips, his voice grainy and rough. The text describes a squeezing, wrenching, clutching, covetous old sinner of a man. He describes everyone that celebrates Christmas, while in debt, an idiot for not spending this so called “joyful” time saving money rather than spending it on other people. The text explicitly states that scrooge is very greedy, my evidence being that when some men came by and asked if he wanted to donate to charity he refused to pay anything even though he was very wealthy, scrooge also at first refused to let his clerk get off from work early being because it was christmas but eventually

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